I kinda scratched my car on garage concrete pillar (rental, insurance, mileage)
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It is an economic car, and it costs around $17k when I bought it 4 years ago, now it is still not 5k mileage yet, which still looks quite new.
But I guess the current estimated value is only around $8k, is it worth to spend money(I guess at least $200 out of my own package) to paint the scratches and make the car look better? It is inconvenient, since it will take 3-4 days and I need to rental car.
I had a similar experience recently ,i just applied some toothpaste to the scratched area and rubbed it with a clean cloth, resulting in most of the scratches disappearing.
You don't pay attention to where you're going and rub up against something? Not sure why this is a difficult concept to comprehend.
OP, don't bother with it. My guess is that if a pole was involved, it would cost you substantially more than $200 to fix it (unless you get your insurance company involved and your deductible is low, but you have to figure the eventual costs of rising insurance into it), so, unless it's scratched through to the metal and rust is a genuine concerned, drive the car until it's time to sell it and then make a decision.
Not an answer as to what you should do, but I have cut pool noodles in half, and glued them to my garage wall to prevent the doors from touching the cinder block walls. When I ran out of pool noodles, I used the styrofoam from a TV and placed it where it needed to be. I just open the front and rear doors, see where they're going to hit, and place the foam there.
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